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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75872	An answer to a book, titled, Quakers principles quaking: subscribed by the name of one Ralph Hale, with an epistle (so called) to the reader, subscribed with the name of one Zachariah Crofton. A principle of darkness, deceit, and confusion in Ralph Hale, and his fellow labourer in Sathans work Zachariah Crofton, is discovered by the Quakers principle, and the Quakers principle doth stand against the power of darkness, and all the false principles in the world, them to discover and lay open. The book was said to be modestly propounded by Ralph Hale, but in it I found so many lies, slanders, and false accusations, with confused, vain, and frivolous words, as many of them is not worth mentioning; yet, lest the author should boast in his mischief, I shall lay down somthing in answer to some few of them, in respect of the number of them. / A servant to the least in the houshold of faith, and the lest amonst his brethren, whose name in the flesh is William Adamson.	Addamson, William, 17th cent.	1656 (1656)	Wing A501; Thomason E897_3; ESTC R206690	24,865	37

An Answer to a Book Titled Quakers Principles Quaking Subscribed by the name of one Ralph Hale with an Epistle so called to the Reader subsc●ibed with the name of one Zachariah Crofton A principle of darkness deceit and confusion in Ralph Hale and his Fellow labourer in Sathans work Zachariah Crofton is discovered by the Quakers principle and the Quakers principle doth stand against the power of darkness and all the false principles in the world them to discover and lay open The Book was said to be modestly propounded by Ralph Hale but in it I found so many lies standers and false accusations with confused vain and frivolous words as many of them is not worth mentioning yet lest the Author should boast in his mischief I shall lay down somthing in Answer to some few of them in respect of the number of them Psalm 9.15 The Heathens are sunk down into the pit that they made in the Net which they hid is their own foot taken A servant to the least in the Houshold of Faith and the least amongst his Brethren whose name in the flesh is William Adamsor LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his Shop at the Black Spread-E●gle near the West end of Pauls 1656. Somthing in Answer to Zachariah Crofton and his Epistle as he calls it ZAchariah Crofton How far art thou from the example of Christ who when he was reviled he reviled not again but thou hast here reviled them that never reviled thee and thine eyes did never see many of those call●d Quakers whom thou hast reviled and called them Revilers Is that the work of a plain man that possesseth an honest heart which thou hast reported thy self to be one of in thy Epistle as thou callest it but it is both the wisdom and praises of a plain man possessing an honest heart to let another man praise him and not his praises come from his own mouth as thine doth Priest And first thou saith to the Reader if he had been in any measure sensible of the Worlds Age and time of the Church in which we have our being and seriously observant of the Dispensations of Providence sutable to the seasons he could not but have seen Gods severity and Sathans subtilty as much as in any Age of the World Ans Zachariah Crofton In this which thou calls thy Epistle thou hast manifested thy self that thou hast not thy being in the Church which is in God but of the Synagogue of Sathan and without God in the world thou manifest thy self to have thy being in that thou vents forth thy venome and spues out thy poison in thy words proceeding from the smoak of the bottomless pit and if the Reader do seriously observe thy Epistle as thou calls i● he may see a bitter inveterate sp●rit of rage and malice lodged in thee and as much of Sathans r●ge as possibly can be uttered in so much paper like that wicked Tertullus who said the Apostle was a pestilent fellow when indeed it was his own condition and so it is here with thee for what thou seems to cast upon us it is due to thy self and if I should say no more in answer to thy Epistle but this that what thou would cast upon us it is thy own portion yet the answer were just and undeniable to all who have the eye of discerning open in any measure Priest And then thou goes on with an accusation but hast not laid down at whom thy sting is shot for some space and then thou begins to push with thy horns like a cursed Goat at the Lambs of Christ who in disdain are called Quakers and thou says Yet in all this hath not Gods severity so much appeared as in the late upstart Quakers by whom the Divel comes stealing into the Field saith thou Answ Zachariah Crofton I do believe that not only thou but all the Parish-masters in England may truly say of that people called Quakers as Ahab said of Micaiah You hate them for they never prophesied good to you for keeping up tythes hire and augmentations and Christ now being manifest in his servants it is not strange that thou should call him the Divel it is but the same title that thy Fore-fathers the Pharise●● gave him and being manfest in his servants he doth so torment the god of this world in he hi●el●ngs that they cry loud for their gains from their quarters as the manner of the greedy dogs ever was Priest Yet now to us how do they prevail Too too much with too too many saith thou Answ I say yet for all that your blind eyes cannot see Gods hand in it lifted up against you Phar●●h like ones and his divine providence in carrying on his own work though you oppress the seed as much as you can yet it increaseth so much the more to the glory of God and the torment of the Beast in you is begun P●iest They are to be pitied not hated they are to be prayed for not preached unto for the Divel that possesseth them is such as can be cast out by no other means save Fasting and Prayer sayest thou Answ Zachariah Crofton If thine eyes were but opened to see how thy own poor soul lieth in the death thou would have then much cause to take thy pity a little rearer thee and pity thy s●lf for thy pity we disown I believe it will prove not worth receiving and for thy prayers we do deny them for the prayers of the wicked God will not hear Isa 1.15 John 9.31 and thou talks of Fasting to cast out Divels I say what now Wilt thou own Fasting Is it not superstition with thee Did thou not term it as superstition when we fasted and now it serves thee to make a talk of thy self But I will tell thee if thy prayers and thy fasting will cast out Divels turn thine eye home within and cast out legion the●e first but I believe thou w●ll but cast out a few Divels or none at all for Christ said if Sathan cast out himself he is divided aga●nst himself If thou hast an ear thou may h●ar Priest And thou saist indeed Amongst other grounds of our compassion this is not the least that they enjoy too much liberty sayest thou and thou seems to be trou●led at it that men will not shew us such pity as to subject us to a Bedlam discipline Answ Zachariah Crofton It seems thy compassion would not afford us our l●berty and if thou ●ad as much power in thy hands as thou seems to have of a cru●l sort of pity in thy heart thou would bring us to a Bedl●m Discipline I say if this be thy compassion and pity let i● be to thy self it is fit thou should be pitied first thy self seeing thou would take such pity on strangers whom thou knows not and if thou chance to take thy lodging in that place where thou wouldst have us pitied then remember that God is just in reaching thee a